“Okay then, why don’t you guide us to your house?”

“As if I will! What more are you going to do to my younger brother!”

The young man resisted desperately, but he couldn’t escape out of Zich’s sturdy arms. He tried to throw punches at Zich’s face, but Zich avoided them with minimum movements or used his other hand to block.

The scuffling went on for a while, but in the end, the young man gave up while panting with his reddened face. Thus, Lubella intervened. She was still kneeling on the floor.

“We have no intention to do your brother any harm. We truly want to solve the problems that are going around the city right now. Besides, I might be able to heal your younger brother.”

“You want me to believe that?”

Words about Zich and Lubella’s deeds had spread throughout the whole city, and their not-so-great first meeting made the young man doubtful of them.

Zich added, “Hey, it’s understandable why you can’t trust us. I will lay out the facts so that you can think about your situation more clearly. Isn’t your younger brother in a really bad condition? He probably isn’t hurting in a specific area, but he keeps getting weaker as if he is moving closer towards death.”

The young man’s pupils shook.

“No matter how much he eats, he loses weight and has a hard time walking. In the end, he can only lie on the bed. But even that’s only for a short while, because he will die soon.”

“…”

The young...